Honorable stand.cdl said:Thanks for the help. I will consider all her offspring terminal as i don't want NH in my herd.
cdl said:Thanks for the help. I will consider all her offspring terminal as i don't want NH in my herd.
leanbeef said:It's a $26 test...if she isn't a pretty good cow, I'd consider shipping her. If she's worth keeping and using, then $26 shouldn't keep you from investing in the possibility that a nice baby out of her could be clean. I agree with the philisophy that it should be a strike against her...yes, it's manageable, but know the status of the cattle you consider keeping or bringing into the herd and manage that accordingly.
leanbeef said:I wouldn't necessarily think so. It's not like every animal that carries a defect mutated into that situation. Most of them inherited it from a parent who inherited it from his/her parent. I don't think any of us know how many generations back that goes and where it originated. And I'm not sure there's proof that is was a mutation to begin with...or maybe it was. I'm not that schooled in the origin of any of those defects. When a bunch of defective calves started being born, they were traced to one carrier bull on both sides.